*En -Czechoslovakia, Prague, November 17, 1989 Czech students organized a demonstration to commemorate the student martyr Jan Opletal and the International Students Day. It started off as an officially-sanctioned march, but turned quickly into demonstration demanding the resignation of the country's communist government. Students were brutally beaten by riot police. This annoyed the public so much that they went on strike as well, demanding the same thing.Demonstrations, which were held afterwards, were attended by more and more people. With the growing street protests and with other communist regimes falling around, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia finally announced on November 28 they would step out.November 17, 1989, started the so called Velvet Revolution. As a result, the first democratic elections since 1946 were held in June 1990 and brought the first completely non-communist government to Czechs and Slovaks in over 40 years. Czechoslovakia, Prague, November 17, 1989
*Cz - Studentska demonstrace k vyroci zastreleni studenta Jana Opletala (11.listopadu 1939) prerostla v otevreny odpor proti komunisticke diktature. Pokojna studentska demonstrace byla brutalne potlacena komunistickou verejnou i tajnou policii. V nasledujicich dnech se statisice lidi postavili verejne proti totalitni moci a zacal prevrat-revoluce v Ceskoslovensku. Svetovymi medii byla pojmenovana jako Velvet Revolution - Sametova revoluce, diky jejimu nenasilnemu prubehu, ktere vedlo k svrzeni komunisticke diktatury v Ceskoslovensku a jmenovani disidenta Vaclava Havla prezidentem.